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Transformation Impossible to Mission Accomplished: Advanced Change Leadership

Mona Golden-Brown

Change Capability Expert/Executive Coach

Gain Diagnostic Precision for Real-World Change Leadership

Despite the fact that you’ve guided complex initiatives, earned the credentials, and led teams through uncertainty, traditional frameworks feel incomplete in moments that you need them most. It's when momentum sometimes fades — quietly, inexplicably, mid‑stream. Those frameworks describe the process of change, but not the dynamics at play when progress stalls.

This course bridges that gap. Using a proprietary diagnostic solution developed for real‑world engagements, you’ll learn to pinpoint the specific forces shaping resistance and identify the exact interventions that move change forward.

Apply to your current work and translate insights into measurable results — transforming uncertainty into strategic clarity. The result is not another methodology, but a mastery of diagnosis that strengthens every tool you already use.

Your leadership has always been powerful. This course gives it precision.

What you’ll learn

Move from managing resistance to diagnosing it. Become the practitioner who walks into stalled initiatives with precision, not guesswork.

  • Use a structured interview method that surfaces goals, emotions, influences, and pain points stakeholders won’t share in group settings.

  • Capture the exact words stakeholders use — the raw material that makes every subsequent diagnostic decision precise and evidence-based.

  • Walk out of any stakeholder conversation with actionable intelligence, not just notes — ready to diagnose what’s really happening.

  • Distinguish genuine engagement from performative buy-in using a structured observation protocol — no more guessing who’s really with you.

  • Back your stakeholder read with documented evidence you can cite in sponsor conversations, not just a gut feeling.

  • Spot masking — when someone presents as supportive but is operating from a completely different place — before it derails your plan.

  • Stop treating all pushback the same — distinguish whether resistance is driven by fear, identity threat, credibility, or something else.

  • Take real things your stakeholders have said and run them through a diagnostic that reveals which specific force is operating.

  • Prescribe the proper intervention. Because if you’re not addressing what’s actually driving the resistance, you’re reinforcing the threat.

  • Identify untapped sources of momentum already present in your engagement that no one has named or activated yet .

  • Learn why activating the wrong lever first can make things worse — and how to read which move the system needs right now.

  • Generate conversation-ready language tailored to your specific stakeholder using AI-assisted diagnostic prompts.

  • Map every force in your engagement to the organizational layer where it actually operates — not where it shows up as a symptom.

  • Trace surface-level resistance back to its root cause — often living in a completely different part of the organization .

  • Assemble one document that shows the full picture: every force, every layer, and the precise sequence for your intervention.

  • Present your diagnostic findings in language that shifts how sponsors and executives perceive your strategic value.

  • Deliver a 3-minute diagnostic presentation to the cohort and receive live coaching on language, presence, and precision .

  • Create a one-page field card outlining your new diagnostic methodology. Differentiate your expertise. On any engagement. On every proposal.

Learn directly from Mona

Mona Golden-Brown

Mona Golden-Brown

Founder / Principal Consultant / Change Capability Expert / Executive Coach

ORGANIZATIONS AND CLIENTS
Accenture
Autodesk
Dutch Bros Coffee
MGM Studios
Stanford University

Who this course is for

  • Independent Change Management Consultants seeking an edge that differentiates their practice and commands premium rates.

  • Transformation Professionals & Certified Change Managers navigating stalled initiatives in complex organizations without formal authority.

  • Digital Transformation Leaders working in enterprise organizations where the new system is live but the adoption is not.

What's included

Mona Golden-Brown

Live sessions

Learn directly from Mona Golden-Brown in a real-time, interactive format.

8hrs+ Office Hours

Scheduled 1:1 Meetings on Thursdays 11:30a - 1:30p PT

Certification of Completion

Advanced Change Leadership - Change Velocity Diagnostics Practitioner

Community of peers

Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.

Maven Guarantee

This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Mar 31—Apr 5

    Mar

    31

    Live Session - Lesson 1

    Tue 3/316:30 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)

    Apr

    2

    Optional: Weekly Office Hours

    Thu 4/26:30 PM—8:30 PM (UTC)
    Optional

    Apr

    3

    Live Session - Lesson 2

    Fri 4/36:30 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)

Week 2

Apr 6—Apr 12

    Apr

    7

    Live Session - Lesson 3

    Tue 4/76:30 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)

    Apr

    9

    Optional: Weekly Office hours

    Thu 4/96:30 PM—8:30 PM (UTC)
    Optional

    Apr

    10

    Live Session - Lesson 4

    Fri 4/106:30 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)

Schedule

Live sessions

3 hrs / week

WEEKLY CADENCE Live Sessions 2/wk (Tues & Fri, 90 minutes each) Office Hours (Optional) - Scheduled 1:1 Meetings (Thur)

    • Tue, Mar 31

      6:30 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)

    • Thu, Apr 2

      6:30 PM—8:30 PM (UTC)

    • Fri, Apr 3

      6:30 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)

Projects

1-2 hrs / week

Async content

1 hr / week

Is This For You?

This course is built for practitioners who’ve been doing change work long enough to know the frameworks aren’t enough.

You’re a fit if you:

• Are an independent change management consultant who needs a diagnostic edge that differentiates your practice and commands premium rates

• Are a W2 change lead or transformation manager navigating stalled initiatives inside complex organizations without full authority

• Lead change at a nonprofit or executive-level role and face board resistance, sponsor gaps, or culture-driven adoption barriers

• Manage technology adoption in SaaS, tech, or enterprise organizations where the system is live but the people haven’t followed

You’ll get the most from this course if you have a live engagement or initiative you can apply the diagnostic to in real time. The curriculum is built on your situation — the more real the engagement, the more powerful the learning.

Frequently asked questions

$1,425

USD

Mar 31Apr 24
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